Asia Islamic Banking Conference

Asia | Financial Services

Third Party Event

05 Jul 2010

Building on the success of our first annual World Islamic Retail Banking Conference in Dubai, Fleming Gulf is proud to announce the launch of Asia Islamic Banking Conference, 5-7 July 2010 at Kuala Lumpur.

Asia Islamic Banking Conference shall answer questions like:

•What safeguards needs to be implemented to ensure securitization does not fail like the recent toxic assets in conventional banking? Are there safeguards already in-built in Islamic finance?

•How can Islamic Banking create distinction from conventional products?

•Is Islamic Finance in its true sense being practiced today?

•Can Islamic Treasury compete with conventional Treasury?

•Can an Islamic Bank chart its own direction if the same Islamic Bank is a fully- owned subsidiary of a Conventional Bank (i.e. who is actually driving the strategy?

•Which Islamic Banking model is the best – standalone or subsidiary of a Conventional Bank?

•Islamic banking and terrorism, are they linked?

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